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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
Increase Of Cigarette Smoking.

Increase Of Cigarette Smoking.
The habit of smoking cigarettes
among public officials is alarmingly on
the increase. It is due, no doubt, to
the fact that the cigarette affords a
means of satisfying an appetite or crav-
ing for tobacco and affords enough
pleasure to the smoker to last for the
time it is wanted. "a cigar OF pipe
is too much of a smoke, y said an offic-
ial talking about the matter, t'in the
office where you are liable to be called
on at any moments notice by a lady
or summoned into the presence of a
superior. In an emergency Of the
kind the little thing can be thrown
aside. The cigarette, you see, is
cheap" Army officers as rule were
noticed to be addicted largely to the
habit Of using the cigarette. They
find it cheaper in the long run than
cigars. Nearly all the young men and,
in fact, not a few Of the old men in
high social life can be seen smoking
them. - Washington Letter.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
The Rallast.

It may be said of base ball that it's
rewards are as much greater as its re-
quiremenls are more arduoua than those
of medicine, divinity, or law. It has
this advantage, too. that no post-grad-
uate course is needed to command it's
highest honors and emoluments. Its
honor man walks out on commence
ment day, his education complete and
sure Of an income of $1,000 or So, 900 a
year. How many long years must the
luckless lawyer or doctor struggle and
toll before he can count on half as
much? The Hour.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
Work Of Natures Sculptor.

We are accustomed to associate such
gigantic water carvings as the Colorado
canon and the Niagara gorge with al
most inconceiyable periods of time, yet
instances are numerous of the wearing
from the solid rock of gorges hundreds
of feet deep by two or three centuries
only of work. Lyell mentions the case
of the Simets, in Sicily, which had been
damned by lavas in 1903. In two and.
a half centuries it had excavated a chan
mel fifty to several hundred feet deep,
and in some parts forty to fifty feet
wide, although the rock is hard basalt.
He also describes gorge in decompos-. !:
ed rock, near Milledgeville, Ga, that
was at first a mud crack yard deep,
but which in twenty years was 800 yards
long, twenty to $50 feet wide and fifty
five feet deep; Liais describes similar
gorge. of twice the length, in Brazil,
made in forty years. But it is the low
lands bordering rivers that the flood
artist finds the plastic material that
may be remolded with each passing sea-
SON. With high water, the streams
rapidly wear into earthly banks, CON-
mencing new bends OF cutting off old
ones, and even opening new channels
for discharge. The great and turbu-
lent Hoang- Ho is noted for it's devasta-
tons, says Dana. In 1850 it emptied
into the Yellow Sea; now this mouth is
dry and it has new channel opening
to the Gulf of Pechele, nearly three
hundred miles north of it's former out
let, and it departed from the old more
than this distance from the coast. This
is the last of many changes, back aud
forth, recorded by the Chinese during
the past 5000 years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
The Barbed Wire Fence.

Already the acc cunts of cattle being
struck by lightning and killed while
huddled together near barbed wire
fence during thunderstorm have be-
gun to come in. Losses of this kind
have become SO numerous of late years
that the question of insulating the
wires OF such fences is seriously dis
cussed. The humble rail fence is not
thing of beauty nor a JOY forever, but
it seldom betrays the confide nee of
lot OF trusting cattle that have assem-
bled together in one of its friendly cor
nors for mutual counsel and support in
the hour of trial. - Chicago 1ribuse
A three-hundred pound turtle was recently
captured near st. Augustine, Fla.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
The Pioneers Of 40.


a Philbrook, Montana, correspond
ent writes: The .Old- timer. the
Forty niner!'' A flood of recollect.ons
enter my mind, both kindly and anus
ing, as dwell on the many various
specimens of this kind that / have met
with during my sojourn in the west.
There are three distinct classes. The (
..old-timers,' who have made a success
in life. and there are large number OF
these, liberal-hearted men, who are pill
lars Of strength in the territories. But
it is in the other two classes in which
you find the fund Of anecdote and inter-
esting characteristics which make the
'sold-timer'' the pilgrims hero. 1t is
those who have made and lost the for
tunes which were so easily got in the
'spalmy-days, y and those who have
never made any great stake, but always
'just missed il.
The first of these last two classes are
the men who suffered all the hardships
of the trip from Omaha to California,
and in the go S went to Idaho and Mon
tana, undergoing almost marvellous ex-
periences, escapes from the Indians,
from starvation, and from cold; which
put into plain words in this day of pal
ace coaches across the continent raises
suspicious that the imagination of the
narrator is getting the best of him.
But the old saying that truth is stran-
ger than fiction" was never truer than
in this case. Most of them lost their
fortunes by recklessness, thinking
what was made so easily could be
made again. The most of these
men, therefore, possess those quail
tiles which redeem them from the
vulgar poverty of their present condi-
ton. The habits of years leave their
trace, and they will to-day divide their
last meal with the stranger that comes
to the cabin door, and feel insulted if
payment is offered. But how bitter
must his feelings be when he finds the
country settling up with large numbers
of people from the STATES to whom
he is but tramp, and he finds himself
slowly vending his way to the poor
house. What a fall-from being the
honored guest at the honored board of
some more fortunate partner to be
pointed out as an object of suspicion
and fit subject for the county COM
missioners' care. We who know treat
him all the more kindly, and to us he
unburdens his soul.
| In the third class are found the witty
| story-tellers, the men who spin the
yarns so taking to the youthful ear.
There are many smart, brainy men,
who, through some fatal lack in their
moral or mental make up, have never
been any thing but rovers. And, hay
ing vast fund of general information
and actual experiences to draw upon,
and with a vivid Imagination, can
weave fact and fancy into stories that
will hold the audience of open mouthed
'tenderfeet'' spellbound.
But they are going, and very soon a
genuine, ''old-timer' will be thing of
the past. They have filled a noble
place in the history of the United
States, and the present generation owes
much to the few who risked all that
the many could follow.
|
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08
Put Oud Dot Gas.

.'Schacob,' said Sehaumburg one
dark, rainy day to his son, who is sim
ultaneously in charge of the '.sushpen-
der and baper COLLAR debartment"
.'Schacob, vonce more dells you, put
oud dot gas so We saves leedle desc
hard times. =
'.Vader, let burning dot gas. I
scharge dot next customer ten per
shent extra to make good dot loss nit
ter gas. =
..Schacob, I tole you vonce more put
dot gas oud right away, and den ven you
scharges dot customer ten per she MT
extra We makes choosh terventy per
.shent extra. =
The gas was extinguished. TEXAS
SJtiaags.
number Of families living in Salt Lake
are preparing to remove to the new interna-
tional colony to be established Ia Lower Cali,
fornla.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-08

"0NAooOay aloot hOoil, cduuaiy y ~, 1OOt.
Ceremony at 8.
MR.. AND MRS. sILAs wEATHERBY.
If any one expected a fashi enable
gathering it was simply because they
did not know the hoste and hostess
very we'll. The great comfortable
house was full of guests, but they were
mostly people of the Weatherby stamp;
good, plain, sensible souls, who did not
go through life junketing and dancing,
so they carried into any occasion OF en-
joyment in which they participated an
almost childish zest. And all the ladies
purred over that blessed baby, and all
the gentlemen button-holed the captain
and made him tell the story over.
Found it on the door step. you say;
found it on the door step? How
very remarkable!'
'.And in that very boat-basket, |
mean, grounded, as it were, at my feet
the prettiest wave that ever struck
the shoals for me--my eyes, sir!''
It was hard to recognize the baby in
its pink slip and coral ornaments, but
harder to recognize the basket, for it
was one mass of flowers, and, tied
with rose-pink ribbons, looked as gay
as a peacock.
| There was only one thing that came
near marring the perfect enjoyment OF
] the occas on. 1t was when the minister,
a pale slight intellectual young man,
stepped forward to beg n the ceremony
in which the wave was to have a
Christian name, and CAPTAIN Wether-
by called out:
Ship ahoy!''
The good man stopped and looked
perplexed.
STOW the prayers. parson, said
the captain; ssshort services on this
ship if you please. =
The minister smiled, and the cere.
mony proceeded, and all the prayers
and remarks of the occasion were con.
densed by the celebrant into a single
quotation:
When my father and mother for.
sake me, then the Lord will take mi
up. =
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
Where : Oh, Where?

Where, oh where, has the young
man gone who graduation clothes put
On, some time along the last of May,
and owned the whole wide world for
day? And where is the sweet girl
graduate, who chanted an essay dread
with fate, and started out with gig
Cling frown to turn this old world up
side down? And where is last years
candidate, who had things fixed for
this years slate ? Who carried around,
as you'd believe, a couple of counties
In his sleeve? And where is the
scribe with the vaulting will, who
tried long felt want to fill, and
courted shekels and renown with a
minion paper in bourgeois town
The lad has divided the world up fair
and owns but his own illiouth
share; the sweet girl graduate is a
grand surprise, and conquers the
world with well-made pies; the can
didate with the deathless "gaIl" is
liking himself for another fall while
the Journalist with the naughty crest
has gone the way of last years nest.
So year by year and day by day the
world runs on in the same old way
the balloon that's the biggest round
about is the fabbiest rag when the
gas is out.-Bob Bandette's Poem u,
Brooklsas Eagle.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
NOVEMBER.

,[Although November has we'll nigh
gone, THE SENTINEL thinks that lis
readers will enjoy, on this Thanksgiv-
ing day, the following poem by that
talented daughter Of North Carolina,
AIRS L. Z. Amis It is in some re-
spects like Gray's Elegy, and ike that
poem, is good enough TO be read on
any day, in any month.
Now bleak November comes with chill
ing blast
With lowering clouds tt sky is over
cast ;
Through leafless trees the north wind
coidly sighs,
And swiftly toward the South the wild
goose flies
There twittering 'mong the dog leaves
The English sparrow, and the brown
snOw-bird /:
While meath the hay-rick, snugly nest
ling close,
The lazy poodle makes his winter
house.
The dead leaves futter through the gar
den walks,
The pale chrysanthemums droop on
their stalks;
Fhe willow bends its frosted boughs
and weeps-
Ger graves of summer joys, it vigil
keeps.
The whistling winds portend coming
storm,
And nesting chickens cluck their quick
alarm
The timid lambs, and sheep with tink-
ling bells
Rush by, with instinct true, which e'er
foretells
The need of shelter, and safe retreat
From winds that pierce, and driving
rains that beat
Around and DER the poor unsheltered
wight,
Who trudges through the dark Novem-
Der night.
Within the homestead, bright and joy
full CLEANS
The cracking hearthstone free-rehect-
ing beams
OF welcome light, from dripping win
dow pane,
And cheerful rays Out-haShing through
the rain.
East winds still wall around the drip
ping caves
Rain drops still patter down on dead
oak leaves
But weary feet that trudge along the
lane.
Grow joyful as the light CLEANS thro'
the pane!
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
What an Old Farmer Says.

This is the advice of an old man
who has titled the soil for forty years
[ am an old man, upwards of three
score years; During two-score of
which l have been tiller of the soil.
| can not say that l am now, but I
have been rich, and have all that 1
need, do not owe dollar, have given
my children a good education, and
when [ am called away will leave
enough to keep the wolf away from
the door. My experience has taught
me that
One acre of land well prepared and
well cultivated produces more than
two which receives only the same
amount of labor used on one.
One acre of clover or grass is worth
two of cotton where no clover or grass
is raised.
One COW, horse, mule, sheep or hog
well fed is more profitable than two
Kept on the same amount necessary to
keep one well.
No farmer, who buys oats, corn, or
wheat, fodder and hay, for ten years
can keep the sheriff from the door in
the end.
The farmer who never reads the pa
pers, sneers at book farming and i'm
provements, always has leaky roof,
poor stock, broken down fences, and
complains of bad seasons.
The farmer who is above his busi
ness and entrusts it to another to man.
age, will soon have no business to at-
attend to.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
THE LAMAR-sPARKs IMRRoGLIo.
Land Commissioner Sparks has Re-
signed his Position.

While there have been before now
cases of a conflict of authority between
superior and subordinate IN the Fed
eral administration, there never has
been case when public opinion has
been more unequivocally on the side
OF the former than in the quarrel be-
tween Secretary Lamar and Land
Commissioner Sparks. With regard
to the merits of the controversy it is
necessary to say very little. Mr.. Sparks
wanted to run the Secretary as well
as the Land Office. The Secretary
at first mildly protested and then
when his inferior officers autocracy
had got to be insuferable, she indited
letter to him. The letter leaves
hardly anything of the Land Com
missioner. This might have been ex-
pected as the result of any serious DIFF
ference between two such men as l..
Q. G. Lamar and w. A. J. Sparks.
The former is too we'll known in char
acter and temperament to require de-
scription in Southern journal at
least. Mr.. sparks.is that ex-member
of Congress whom some evil fate
toisted upon the President when near
ly every other officer of prominence
under the Government appointed by
lMr. Cleveland had some faint idea of
what his duties were and some COM
mon sense in the execution of them.
In the Congress Mr.. Sparks had the
reputation Of being the great Western
brawler. Personally incorruptible,
and not thoroughly an ill-natured
man, he was too quick on all occasions
10 resent afronts or imagined affronts.
During his term Of service he was en-
gagged in a number Of unseemly wran-
giles and at least three or Jour personal
on the floor of the house.
With such a wild cat even so amlable
and intellectual man as AIr. Lamar
could not get along. Nobody ever
does who has any relations with him.
This is the universal testimony from
Washingto ton Wilmington Messenger.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
The Statesvillc Forgery Case.

Mr.. W. T. Bailey who was tried at
Statesville last week upon the charge
of forgery, and found guilty by the
jury, was last Friday arraigned before
Judge Walter Clark to receive his
sentence. Judge Clark sentenced him
to a term of ten years in the State
penitentiary.
Mr.. Bailey, through his counsel, en-
tered an appeal from the Judgment of
the court, and his bond was fixed at
$1,000. The case created great deal
OF interest on account OF the promi-
nence Of the parties engaged in the
suit. The suit was brought against
Mr.. Bailey by Mr.. w. w. Walton, as
executor of the late DIR. A. D. Gage.
In 1880, Mr.. Bailey bought tract of
land from DIR. Gage for $500, and
was to pay $685. per year until the
whole debt was paid up. Mr.. Baily
had paid two thousand dollars at the
time DIR. Gage died. About Is months
after the Doctors death, Mr.. Bailey,
In settling with Mr.. Walton, present,
ed receipt for eight hundred dollars,
with DR.. Cages name to it and asked
for credit. Mr.. Walton thought tor
two reasons, that the receipt was not
genuine. First, Mr.. Bailey had not
presented it within twelve months af-
ter DIR. Cages death, as the law re-
quires, and as Mr. Walton had adver-
tised to this effect, and had had one
payment made by Mr.. Bailey and at
that time Mr.. Bailey paid the interest
upon the whole outstanding indebted
ness Give hundred dollars.) Next the
handwriting was not that of DR.. Gage.
Mr.. Bailey does not lack sympathy
He had previously borne an unques-
tionably good reputation, and by the
witnesses l. court proved good
character. 1t is sad case, to be
sure Charlotte Chronicle.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
A New Religious Departure -Industr!
and Enterprise n Duty.

The evangelist Pearson, in his recent
revival sermons at Salisbury, dwelt
upon the necessity of all being engag-
ed in some steady, active, healthful
work, and especially of people of
means furnishing employment for the
poor Result, cotton factory started
in Salisbury.
We have long thought that this is
just what both the pulpit and the press
had better be doing rather than drum
ming 30 necessarily on abstract prob
lems-the one in theology and the
other in politics. What the masses of
mankind need is stimulus to sober,
industrious habits, with the hope of
bettering their condition in life. This
is the first lesson OF Christian duty,
and better than any homily on mere
creed or party platform.-C Charlotte
Hornet.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
CABINET CHANGES.
SENATOR COLQUITT TO SUCCEED
SECRETARY LAMSR.
Plausible Reasons Showing President
Cleveland's Preference for the Geor-
gia Senator.

gia Senator.
| From, the Washington Critic.
New light has been thrown upon
tie reconstruction of the Cabinet by
certain developments of the past few
days, and these developments lead in a
direction not heretofore mentioned in
the public prints The fact that Sen
! ator Celquitt, of Georgia, has appear
ed upon the scene, is not suggestive in
itself, but taken with fact that he was
yesterday closeted with Secretary La
mar for several hours after the meeting
| of the Cabinet, has revived the rumor
that he will figure in the new Cabinet
deal. There are various straws which
point to Colquitt as Secretary Lemar's
successor 1t is we'll known that Pres
ident Cleveland, when in Georgia,
was very much impressed with Gov
ernor Gordon, and has, since his re-
turn, to intimate friends, expressed
desire that in some way Governor
Gordon might be sent to the Senate
where his ready speech, conservative
sentiments and high character would
be of great value to the administra-
ton. It is asserted that Mr. Villas,
since he has been looking the field
over, has about concluded that he
does not desire to change his position.
The Post Office Department to him
has been a source of constant study,
and be has devoted two and one half
years of hard work to mastering its
details. To accept the portfolio of the
Interior Department, it is pointed out
by his friends, would be for him to tie
himself down to his desk and go
through the same constant, ceaseless
work in acquiring the details of his
new position that he has already per
formed in the Post Office Department.
This an intimate friend of his yester-
day said he did not believe Mr.. Villas
would do, unless especially urged to
dc so by the President. This view Of
the matter is lent additional weight
from the fact that Mr.. Dickinson, to
whom the post of Postmaster General
was said to have been rendered, EN-
phatically denies such report. Look
ing at the matter all around, veter-
an politician said to-day that with
Colquitt in the Cabinet it would leave
its sectional construction the same as
now, while if Mr.. Villas and Mr..
Dickerson should go in it would leave
Mr.. Garland, the only representative
of the South-that in fact would leave
the South without representation-as
Mr.. Garland represents the South
west and Mr.. Bayard the Middle
States. Il, as is generally assumed,
Mr.. Villas is a candidate for Vice
President, it would be political mis-
take for him to accept the Interior
Department portfolio, with Mr.. Dick
erson as Postmaster General, as it
could not help but breed antagonism
from Mr.. Muldrow and Mr.. Steven
sons friends, which will be likely to
prove formidable in the next nomi-
mating convention. Viewing the mat
ter from all sides, it now seems prob
able that the solution of Mr.. Lamar's
promotion to the Supreme Bench will
be Senator Colqu1tt as Secretary of
the Interior, Mr.. Villas to remain
where he is, and Governor Gordon to
succeed Mr.. Colquitt as Senator from
Georgia.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-24
How sour zeb" Raises rurnips.

Senator Vance has new way of
raising turn,ps." In his Catawba
county agricultural address he said,
as reported in the Asheville Citizen !:
among other valuable and timely
suggestions he made the following as
the best, surest and most agreeable
way of raising turnips. He said his
experience was that the man should
go into some other mans field, sur
round the turnip carefully with his
knees, get solid grip on the top, pull
with all necessary force, and then
skip BY the light of the moon.' He
naively added (no pun meant here)
this method rarely ever fails to raise a
good turnip."